ACCOUNTANT STUDENTS' SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18410, 17 June 1925, Page 6

ACCOUNTANT STUDENTS' SOCIETY.

At the mealing: of tho Accountant Students' Society on Monday, Mr R., J. McLaren presided over.a fair attendance of memberSj .The meeting took tho form of a trial debate, the object being: to select speakers to represent the Society in the debatbs .with. "Wellington and' Otago. The subject was' "That tho adoption of Absolute' Control under; the Daily Produbo Export Control Act, 1923) is in tho. Best Interests of the Dominion." Mr J. . Lcgie, leader of tho affirmative side, opened his sr>eech. by giving s'omo .definitions' of the terms used in tho'iAct and also of tha, constitution '• of tho Board and its London advisory agency. Tho of tho Act i was to ensure that all dairy produce waa' to be exported' by tho Control Board and none could bo exported without tho authority of- the- Minister of Agriculture. A poll had'been taken of tho 55,000 dairy and of that number .22,280 'had voted for the Act and 92G0 against it, the remainder not'voting. By having a Control Board, terms could be mada with the shipping companies in tho same manner as ttie Meat Board had. done. Considerable agitation had been going on for improvements in tho marketing of the produce in London and the Act was destined to regulate the supplies bo that tho London market would hot become overstocked and a slump set'in and also to maintain a fair average price. Mr C. C-. Pickett, leader of the negative side, criticised the remarks of tho previous speaker with regard to freight, and stated that although the freight per box during tho war wap 6s, it was now only 4s, owing to .the stabilising of the factors contributing to the High war prices. Ho drew attention to the lack of interest taken in the Act by the producei's, as only half of them had gone to the trouble to record their rote. The main part of Mr'Pickett's speech dealt with; the financial side. A farmer must obtain, a price over and above his cost of production to cnablo him to carry on. He gave a • very interesting. resume of the present system of progress payments to farmers pending tho sale of Hie produce in London. The Beard had no security whatever except that of tho produce and was not backed byt the Government the same as the Meat Board was. Others sneakers were Messrs T. Smith, T. T. Taylor, B. G-. Shepherd, H. K. Abbott and A. G. Cooper,, Mr W. J. Franklyn, the judge, announced his decisions and gave some interesting constructive criticisms of tho speeches. Mr Pickett was declared the winner and as such was entitled to hold Mr Holland's Debating Cup for one year. Mr Abbott was second, Mr third and Mr Skelton fourth. On tho motion of Mr Logie, seconded by Mr Pickett, a- very hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr Franklyn for his judging and valuable criticism. Mr C. P. Agar, who was among those present, gave; some interesting facts, and figures concerning the present day position of tho industry. _. ■ , Mr B. J. McLaren then' presented M Pickett with the Debating Cup, and- the meeting terminated.